--- title: The stepmother was that surprised when she found the young prince in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The stepmother was that surprised when she found the young prince instead of the nasty frog, and she wasn't best pleased, you may be sure, when the prince told her that he was going to marry her stepdaughter because she had unspelled him. Who acts: stepmother, you, prince. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, you, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:47:46 # text = The stepmother was that surprised when she found the young prince instead of the nasty frog, and she wasn't best pleased, you may be sure, when the prince told her that he was going to marry her stepdaughter because she had unspelled him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 28 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 33 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 stepdaughter stepdaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 because because SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 unspelled unspell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 ccomp _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the stepmother | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | past | stepmother | the young prince | | | | instead the nasty frog | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | stepmother | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | may | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the prince | | stepmother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** | past · progressive | prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **marry** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | stepmother's stepdaughter | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Patient | | 8 | **unspell** | past · perfect · passive | | stepmother | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/47/) - ↑ back to [The Well of the World's End](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/)